Morning Links: Insect Wings (and Many Other Things!) Edition

Kurt Schwitters’s Merz Barn in England is at risk of being demolished unless finances can be righted. Appreciators of Dada barns, unite! [The Guardian]

Here’s a tribute to the experimental-film maestro Stan Brakhage, on the occasion of a new book of interviews with a man who once glued insect wings (and many other things!) to celluloid. [The New York Review of Books]

Times of the Times

Roberta Smith is underwhelmed with a new installation at the Park Avenue Armory by Ai Weiwei and the architects Herzog & de Meuron. The work “encourages further variations on the snow-angel selfie” and comes across as little more than “a kind of thinking person’s ‘Rain Room.’ ” [The New York Times]

Jason Farago digs the moving (like, literally moving) Alexander Calder works now on view in the Whitney Museum’s new exhibition “Calder: Hypermobility.” [The New York Times]

Here’s what hangs on the walls of Bruce Berman, “Hollywood’s most ardent photography collector.” [The New York Times]

Threads

Google has gotten into the fashion-archiving game by way of “We Wear Culture,” a new initiative that just launched online. [The Washington Post]